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quantum bit

noun

  1. the smallest unit of information in a quantum computer, existing in a superposition of two states (1 and 0), and settling on one state or the other only when a measurement of the state is made in order to retrieve the output of the computation
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A normalized linear combination of an up state and a down state of, for example, the spin of an electron.